Have been in queue for 20 minutes, theres no problem filling tank, and DPS for LFR, but healers? Nope, its has been 0/5 for 20 minutes already.
Stop nerfing them so they actually want to play!!!
Thanks!
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Make healers not cosmetic again!
i just dps, fistweaver, disc priest, resto shaman, and resto druid seems like the best healers to dps in their free time.
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I gotta say, I have never had a healer que beyond 5 minutes for healer, except for when I que on off peak hours, like at 4am.
Maybe healers avoid LFR for more efficient ways of gearing
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Pretty much. We in general avoid anything pug related also. Why play and look after randoms when you can play with an organised group?
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This exactly. Every healer I geared I only ran through LFR if I felt like fishing for trinkets while at 424. Keys are easy to get into as a healer and I can pug Normal at 430 on a healer just fine.
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I don’t know that they’re “nerfing” healers, but the current healer playstyle does feel really bad. tl;dr tanks don’t need you to survive forever, they exist completely independently of the entire rest of the party in their own bubble. DPS also don’t need you until they get hit by one mechanic and instantly fall from 100% to 5% health, when you have to panic-spam them before any other mechanic goes off.
So it’s a big long dungeon of being pretty worthless, followed by intermittent bouts of panicked spamming of fast heals. And if you have two dps that both get hit by a mechanic at the same time, good night, may as well just queue for a new key.
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I am super very upset about my post getting flagged for no darn reason at all, but Ill level with yah if they are going to kick me out of the forum anyway for telling the truth all the time. Healers get nerfed if they are on the opposite faction certain important people play on.
They nerfed my palladin and my priest for keeping horde PVPers topped on Lightninghoof server and I know its because somebody important got frustrated.
You read in to that whatever you want and feel free to flag it cause I don’t agree with you.
They don’t want to play because healers aren’t fun to play anymore. Every class has way too much damage and stuff to deal with healing. Too much cc.
Cata/mop was the best healing expansions
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I mean, i guess if you are doing low end content. As a healer main, the thing i see as the problem is healer is a high stress position because it requires you to compensate for the entire groups mistakes. And you really feel that if you are doing keys above +10. Plus, people are basically required to have an addon for healing or to set up mouseovers to properly heal challenging content, which either deters new healers, or causes them to struggle.
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Pretty sure I just got buffed.
I just don’t pug.
Also: healers not pugging isn’t because they’re getting nerfed. It’s because people refuse to do stuff and claim “healer’s job.”
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You guess what, if you are doing low end content? That tanks are independent actors?
This is exactly what I said
Ok. I am with you so far.
What
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Maybe consolidate some of the too many cool downs I have. Maybe pick two CDs for me to have (not 7 please) and give them charges, and make my regular spells good at healing again.
If we’re voting, I vote that you give great passive alternatives to empyreal blaze (maybe the alternative node is remove cooldown on holy fire and make it instant cast so it is better to use than smite/swd always), halo/dstar node, chastise, sanctify (I don’t want this in keys it doesn’t hit everyone), and apotheosis, like you did for power word life and benevolence. Also, make fade permanent and passive in M+ for priests which will help with survivability issues priests have. Then double health pools because one shot meta is not good. Maybe give people a choice node to make Rhapsody stack up holy fire instead of holy nova to an equal amount. GG you just made holy priest a lot more fun for me in keys!
Breaking news, if it’s fun and convenient rather than hard and clunky, people will do it!
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Well don’t need runes if you have the 100 gold so unless you need gear which this late in the expansion most probably don’t no point in healing lfr 
It’s got nothing to do with healer nerfs and everything to do with incentive of which there is little to none.
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LOL… I don’t even know what that was. 
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Healers dont feel “worthless” unless it’s low end content. Even when the tank is an OP blood dk who doesnt really need my help there is more than enough healing to go around with the dps. And that’s as a consistent, not just sudden spikey damage that happens occasionally between long luls of nothing happening like you are describing.
Idk I’d probably play a healer more often if people wouldn’t be so cruel to their healer for the dumbest reasons. I mean there is people out there that kick healers for the DPS being dumb and pulling stuff or the tank’s just god awful. I mean why should I play a healer when people think they’re dime a dozen like dps tend to be and kick them because the tank can’t keep aggro and the healer got slaughtered because the DPS are pulling everything and everyone on top of that? Why does the healer get blamed when the tank can’t do their dang job and the dps are trigger happy? I mean at this point I only heal for groups with people I know and yeah…they all quit years ago
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Everything just sucks 50% more as a healer outside of instances and grouping. Before they put in spec grinds I’d just swap to dps for questing and open world. Even if it’s free to switch I have to carry an extra set of gear and they keep adding currencies to screw with bag space already plus extra repair costs. It’s like I’m punished for running a healer.
I try to keep them for the purpose of instancing but Blizzard demands a grind. I can’t use flight form on my druid unless I grind open world. People will actually move away from me if I heal them and contribute dps/kicks/purges/dispells in a quest area. In warmode they can turn around and kill me, my own team. On my tanks people bring me their mobs and don’t mess with me in WPvP because I have a lot of HP.